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14 Aug 2012

Oliver Chris

British stage and screen actor Oliver Chris, who plays the priggish Stanley Stubbers in Broadway's acclaimed One Man, Two Guvnors, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.

Chris' Playbill bio reads, "Oliver has played a selection of arrogant misogynists, some enthusiastic idiots and a donkey. Television: the original U.K. version of 'The Office,' other stuff you've probably never heard of and something called 'Green Wing' that you should buy on DVD. Oliver is currently quite into the idea of becoming a massive movie star. He has also just won an award for doing acting. It's made of plastic."

More specifically, his U.K. screen work includes "Green Wing," "Tripping Over," "According to Bex," "Nathan Barley," "The IT Crowd" and "Rescue Me." He played temp "Ricky Howard" in Series One of the original U.K. "The Office."

Stage credits include Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew at the Wilton's Music Hall, Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Royal Exchange Theatre, the West End debut of Lisa Kron's Well and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre opposite Judi Dench.

Full given name:

Oliver Chris

Where you were born/where you were raised:

Tunbridge Wells. It's a little commuter town about an hour outside London that pretends to be pretty.

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio. Oooooooo.

What your parents did/do for a living:

My mum is a London Guide. My dad is studying for a PhD in Climate Science (so he says).

Siblings:

One brother

Special skills:

Drinking martinis

Something you're REALLY bad at:

Stopping drinking martinis

First Broadway/West End show you ever saw:

When I was 6 my parents took me to see Peter Hall's production of Animal Farm at the National Theatre. To this day I can't look at a pig without worrying it’s going to move into my house, kill my cat and start doing business with my neighbours.